JAPANESE TRIAL
ASSASSINATION OF MR IHUKAI SENTENCES IMPOSED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. TOKIO, February 3. The District Court has sentenced the civilians involved in Mr inukai’s assassination. Kosaburo Tachivana, head of the Agrarians’ Welfare Study Association. was sentenced to life imprisonment, and four teachers, ten youths, two farmers, and three heads of patriotic societies to three and a-half up to fifteen years. [Mr Ki Inukai, aged seventy-seven, Prime Minister of Japan, was assassinated in May, 1932, by young army and naval officers who thereafter gave themselves up to the police. The assassination was stated to be due to the impatience of the army and navy with the policy of the Government concerning the Manchurian invasion, in which it was considered at that time that Imikai’s policy was not sufficiently aggressive.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 9
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